R
ELIGION, CULTURE, POLITICS
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
ASSOCIATION FOR THE
SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION
71STANNUAL MEETING
8 – 10 AUGUST 2009
Sir Francis Drake Hotel
San Francisco, California
NB: The Preliminary Program is indeed just that — Preliminary. Changes may be necessary between this posting and the actual meeting. The date of posting at the end of this paragraph will indicate the most recent updating. If you find errors in this document (e.g., misspellings or incorrect affiliations) report them to the Executive Office (
bill4329@hotmail.com). 7 May 2009If you are on the program, please do not ask to be rescheduled. Rescheduling normally involves a minimum of seven (7) other people. The extrapolation of that with only a few such requests would quickly exceed the total number of people on the program!
OVERVIEW*
*Full session listings follow this overview
Friday, August 7
5:00 – 8:45 p.m.
Executive Council Meeting
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Registration
9:00 – 10:00 p.m.
Welcoming Reception
The reception is co-sponsored by ASR and Brill to mark the publication of the seventeenth volume of the renewed "Religion and the Social Order" series, Conversion in the Age of Pluralism, edited by Giuseppe Giordan.
Saturday, August 8
8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Registration8:30 – 10:15 a.m.
A1. Civil Society: Variations Around the World
A2. Interfaith Movements
A3. Thinking (Very) Broadly About What Constitutes Religion Today
A4. Religion in China
10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
B1. Religion and Inequality
B2. Religion, Crime and Terrorism Cross-Nationally
B3. Factors Affecting Religiosity
B4. Religion and the State
12:15 – 5:00 p.m., ASR Book Exhibit
1:00 – 2:45 p.m.
C1. Religion in the Middle East and Its Diaspora
C2. Music, Ritual, and Community Action
C3. Religiosity, Belonging, and Doubt
C4. Religious America/Secular Europe
3:00 – 4:45 p.m.
D1. Author Meets Critics — Prema Kurien’s A Place at the
Multicultural Table: The Development of an American Hinduism
D2. Catholicism, Change, and Context: The Lifeworld of Ralph Lane
and the Birthing of the ASR
D3. The Sociology of Secularity
D4. Religion and Political Culture in Africa
5:00 p.m.
ASR Presidential Address
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.*
ASR Presidential Reception
*Time approximate: Reception opens at the conclusion of the address.
Sunday, August 9
7:00 – 8:15 a.m.
New Attendees’ Welcoming Breakfast
Attendance by preregistration only8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Registration
8:15 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
ASR Book Exhibit
8:30 – 10:10 a.m.
E1. Religion in the Reshaping of Political Community: Comparative
Perspectives (ASR/ASA Joint Thematic Session)
10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
F1. Author Meets Critics — Margaret M. Poloma and Ralph W. Hood, Jr’s
Blood and Fire: Godly Love in a Pentecostal Emerging Church
F2. Religion, Social Movements and Politics
F3. Evangelical Boundary Work
F4. Religion and Gender
1:00 – 2:45 p.m.
G1. Women and Islam
G2. Immigrant Religion
G3. Buddhism Around the World
G4. Judaism Today
3:00 – 4:45 p.m.
H1. Author Meets Critics — John Hall’s Apocalypse: From Antiquity to the
Empire of Modernity
H2. Religion, Social Movements and Religious Movements
H3. Religion, Culture, and Citizenship
H4. Religion Combating Stigma and Providing Social Support
5:00 p.m.
ASR Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture
6:00 – 8:00 p.m.*
ASR Furfey Lecture Reception
*Time approximate: Reception opens at the conclusion of the lecture.
Monday, August 10
7:15 – 8:15 a.m.
ASR Business Meeting
8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Registration
8:15 – 10:25 a.m.
Reserve Book Pick-up
8:30 – 10:15 a.m.
I1. Author Meets Critics — Margarita Mooney’s Faith Makes Us Live:
Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora
I2. Missionaries and Their Effects
I3. Historical Studies of Religion
I4. Coping with Armageddon
10:25 a.m. – 12:25 p.m.
Final Book Sale
10:30 – 12:15 p.m.
J1. The New Politics of Religious Communities: Managing Diversity and
Inequality (ASR/ASA Thematic Session)
J2. American Jews’ Politics and the Politics of American Jewry
J3. Religion in Africa
J4. Classical and Cultural Theory in the Sociology of Religion
12:30 – 2:10 p.m.
K1. Religion and Politics in America
K2. Author Meets Critics — Sharon Nepstad’s Religion and War Resistance
in the Plowshares Movement
K3. The Sociology of Godly Love: New Research in an Emerging Field of
Study
K4. Workshop on Journal Publishing
2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
L1. Religion and Sexuality
L2. Catholicism in the United States Today
L3. Socialization into New Religious Movements
L4. Religion and the Family
4:30 p.m.
ASR Executive Council
SESSIONS
Saturday, August 8, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session A1: Civil Society: Variations Around the World
Convener: TBA
Continuity and Change in American Civil Religion
John Simpson, University of Toronto
Secularization in Global Civil Society: Work in Progress Toward a Global Neo-secularization Paradigm
David V. Brewington, Emory University
Perceptions of Religious Influence in American Society
Jeremy Uecker and Mazen Elfakhani, University of Texas – Austin
Analyzing the Relationship between National Identity and State Secularization in
Latin America
Jonathan Eastwood, Washington and Lee University
Session A2: Interfaith Movements
Convener: TBA
Islamic Studies and the Culture of Religious Reform: Ignaz Goldziher (1850-1921) –
A Crossroads of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Dietrich Jung, University of Southern Denmark
Multifaith Movements and the "Politics of Understanding"
Anna Halafoff, Monash University
The Coexistence of Christian Faith and Belief in Reincarnation among Different Chinese Christian Groups in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China
Hsing-Kuang Chao and Wei-chun Chiu, Tunghai University
Interfaith Dialog: Theory and Practice in Select Cities in the U.S.
Mike McMullen, University of Houston – Clear Lake
Session A3: Thinking (Very) Broadly About What Constitutes Religion Today
Convener and discussant: Michele Dillon, University of New Hampshire
Ontological Rebellion: The Otherkin Community and the Struggle for Reality
Joseph Laycock, Boston University
On Religion and the Production of Automobility
Nick Scott, Carleton University
An Examination of Factors Affecting Religious and Spiritual Identities
Donavan Bowers and David A. Gay, University of Central Florida
Session A4: Religion in China
Convener and discussant: Fenggang Yang, Purdue University
Overseas Chinese Christians in China: Faith, Business, and Ethics
Joy Tong Kooi Chin, National University of Singapore
"We Will Have A New China": Calling, Career, and Change among American-
Educated Chinese Evangelicals
Roman R. Williams, Boston University
Falun Gong and Its Human-Rights Campaign
Weishan Huang, New School for Social Research
Saturday, August 8, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session B1: Religion and Inequality
Convener and discussant: Michael Hout, University of California – Berkeley
Neighborhood Effects on Adolescent Religiosity
Scott Desmond, Sarah E. Soper, and Kristopher H. Morgan, Purdue
University
Mortality Differentials by Religion in the United States
Allison R. Sullivan, University of Pennsylvania
Government Faith-Based Initiatives: A View from Urban Mothers in Poverty
Susan Crawford Sullivan, College of the Holy Cross
Session B2: Religion, Crime and Terrorism Cross-Nationally
Convener and discussant: Randal Collins, University of Pennsylvania
Religious Affiliation and Support for Government Polities on Terrorism
David Gay and John Lynxwiler, University of Central Florida
Belief, Ritual, and Moral Community: A Cross-National Analysis of the Effects of Religion on Tolerance of Crime
Katie Corcoran, David Pettinicchio, and Blaine Robbins, University of
Washington
Curly and the Virgin: Religion, Ethnicity, and Nationality in the Central American Gang
Robert Brenneman, University of Notre Dame
Religion and Terror – Constraints on China’s Regional Development
Swapan Sen, Winston-Salem State University, and Debjani Chakraborti,
Columbia Basin College
Session B3: Factors Affecting Religiosity
Convener: TBA
Black-White Differences in Religiousness in Late Life: Exploring Race-of-Interviewer Effects
Christopher Ellison, Michael McFarland, University of Texas – Austin, and
Neal Krause, University of Michigan
Education, Religiosity, and Religious Prejudice
Elena Lisovskaya, Vyacheslav Karpov, and Yevgeniya Leontieva, Western Michigan University
Constructing Sacred Selves: Identity, Belief and Practice in the Midst of Religious
Diversity
Devra Jaffe-Berkowitz, Princeton University
Friends at Church: Religious Participation and Identification
Samuel Stroope, Baylor University
Session B4: Religion and the State
Convener: TBA
The Development and Major Problems of Religious Legislation in Taiwan (1949-2008)
Pen-Hsuan Lin, National United University (Taiwan)
"Got Religion?": State-Sanctioned Christian Beliefs and Social Control
Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi and Paul Theophilus, Winston-Salem State University
Toward a Theoretical Framework for Researching State-Regime Transformation
Isaiah Wilson III, United States Military Academy
Genres of Religious Freedom: Discourses on Religion at the State Department
Rick Moore, University of Chicago
Saturday, August 8, 12:15-5:00 p.m.
Book Exhibit
Saturday, August 8, 1:00-2:45 p.m.
Session C1: Religion in the Middle East and Its Diaspora
Convener and discussant: Cihan Tugal, University of California – Berkeley
New Religious Orthodoxies and Cultural Sites of Hybridity: Muslimism in Turkey
Neslihan Cevik and George Thomas, Arizona State University
Mûsa al-Sadr and the Shiites of Lebanon: Religion as an Emancipatory Force in the Deepening of Democracy… or Theocracy?
André G. Sleiman, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales/Centre d’Études Interdisciplinaires des Faits Religieux
Religion in the Ethnic Economy
Kathleen Marker, University of California – San Diego
Being Muslim in the Upper Midwest
Matthew Luther Lindholm, Kera Halvorson, and Bethany Santema, Concordia College
Session C2: Music, Ritual, and Community Action
Organizer and convener: Tanice G. Foltz, Indiana University Northwest
Drum Circles and "Rhythm Evangelism": Responding to the Call
Tanice G. Foltz, Indiana University Northwest
Religion and Rap Music: An Analysis of Black Church Usage
Sandra L. Barnes, Vanderbilt University
Rock of Ages: Feeling Awe and Intimacy in the Practice of Contemporary Evangelical Worship
Kevin McElmurry, University of Missouri
A Witches’ Sabbat: Religion as Embodied Performance
Douglas Ezzy, University of Tasmania
Session C3: Religiosity, Belonging and Doubt
Convener: TBA
Religious Certainty and Doubt
Jason Wollschleger, University of Washington
Social Capital and Religion Revisited
Gábor Dániel Nagy, University of Szeged
(Re)Creating Community: Urban Mennonites Mediating Neighborhood Social Cohesion in Philadelphia
Candice Dias, University of Groningen
Rethinking "Secularism": How Organized Atheism Makes a Problem Out of Religion
Bradly Nabors, University of Southern California
Session C4: Religious America/Secular Europe
Convener and discussant: Margarita Mooney, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Explaining Scandinavian Irreligiosity: Why Are Danes and Swedes So Secular?
Phil Zuckerman, Pitzer College
The Reaffirmation of a Traditional Belief System in a Secularized Society: Portugal as a Case Study
Steffan Dix, University of Lisbon
Religious America, Secular Europe: A Framework for Debate
Grace Davie, University of Exeter
Apparent Diversity in Belief and Dogmatic Uniformity in Advanced Industrial Societies
Raphaël Liogier, Université Paul Cézanne
Saturday, August 8, 3:00-4:45 p.m.
Session D1: Author-Meets-Critics: Prema Kurien’s A Place at the Multicultural Table: The Development of an American Hinduism
Organizer and convener: R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois – Chicago
Panel: Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University
Pawan Dhingra, Oberlin College
Pyong Gap Min, Queens College
Rhys H. Williams, University of Cincinnati
Respondent: Prema Kurien, Syracuse University
Session D2: Catholicism, Change, and Context: The Lifeworld of Ralph Lane and
the Birthing of the ASR
Organizer: Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University
Convener and discussant: Patricia Wittberg, Indiana University-Purdue University –
Indianapolis
Ralph Lane’s "New Beginning": Progress Toward a Goal for the Sociology of Religion
Kevin J. Christiano, University of Notre Dame
Catholic Academic Freedom
Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University
Catholic Social Critique: Ivan Illich and Ralph Lane
John A. Coleman, S.J., Loyola House, San Francisco
Sociology at the University of San Francisco: A Cornerstone of Ralph Lane’s Campus-wide Legacy
Stephen Zavestoski, University of San Francisco
Session D3: The Sociology of Secularity
Organizer and convener: Christel Manning, Sacred Heart University
Atheism, Secularity, and Well-Being
Phil Zuckerman, Pitzer College
A Portrait of Secular Group Affiliates
Frank Pasquale, ISSSC
Sexuality and the Secular
Thomas Linneman, College of William and Mary
Secular Parenting: The Religiously Uncommitted and the Next Generation
Christel Manning, Sacred Heart University
Atheism and Secularity in the former Soviet Union
Leontina Hormel, University of Idaho
Session D4: Religion and Political Culture in Africa
Organizer, convener, and discussant: Afe Adogame, University of Edinburgh
Erupting Songs of Praise and Protest: African Women Fighting for Space
Lilian Dube, University of San Francisco
The Impact of Politicization of Religion on Democratic Culture in Contemporary
Nigeria
Dapo Asaju, Lagos State University
Religion in Private and Public Spheres in Africa
Kwasi Kwakye-Nuako, Howard University
Past in the Present: Indigenous Leadership and Contemporary Politics Among the Amasiri, Southeastern Nigeria
Elijah Obinna, University of EdinburghSaturday, August 8, 5:00 p.m.
ASR Presidential Address
Convener: Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri
Post-Secular Tensions in Politics and Culture
Michele Dillon, University of New Hampshire
Saturday, August 8, 6:00-8:00 p.m.*
ASR Presidential Reception
The Presidential Reception is co-sponsored by Oxford University Press/Oxford Journals, publisher of Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review, the official journal of the Association for the Sociology of Religion.
*Time approximate: reception to open upon the conclusion of the address.
*
Sunday, August 9, 7:00-8:15 a.m.
New Attendees’ Welcoming Breakfast
Attendance by preregistration only.
Sunday, August 9, 8:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Registration
Sunday, August 9, 8:15 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
ASR Book Exhibit
Sunday, August 9, 8:30-10:10 a.m.
Session E1: Religion in the Reshaping of Political Community: Comparative Perspectives (ASR/ASA Joint Thematic Session)
Organizer and convener: Michele Dillon, University of New Hampshire
The Politics of Religious Identity in the United States
Michael Hout and Claude Fischer, University of California – Berkeley
Using Religious Symbols to Redefine the Nation: Evidence from Poland and Québec
Geneviève Zubrzycki, University of Michigan
Politics and Religion in the Production of Civil Society in Southeast Asia
Bryan Turner, National University of Singapore
Sunday, August 9, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session F1: Author-Meets-Critics: Margaret M. Poloma and Ralph W. Hood, Jr.’s Blood and Fire: Godly Love in a Pentecostal Emerging Church
Organizer and convener: Matthew Lee, University of Akron
Panel: Robin Perrin, Pepperdine University
Janet Jacobs, University of Colorado
Richard Flory, University of Southern California
Respondent: Margaret Poloma, University of Akron
Session F2: Religion, Social Movements and Politics
Convener: William H. Swatos, Jr., Augustana College (Illinois)
"Who Is My Neighbor?" Religious Worldviews and Framing Atlanta’s Movement to End Homelessness
William W. Holland, Georgia State University
Religion and Mutiny in 20th Century Nonviolent Uprisings
Sharon Erickson Nepstad, University of New Mexico
Investigating Moral Expertise in Public Policy Advocacy
Ruth Braunstein, Social Science Research Council
Have You Ever Felt Called by God to Do Something? Religious Experience and
Political Participation
Jong Jung, University of Southern CaliforniaSession F3: Evangelical Boundary Work
Convener and discussant: Dawne Moon, Marquette University
Managing the Boundary between Religion and Science: Evangelicals on Intelligent Design and Reparative Therapy
Antony Alumkal, Iliff School of Theology
The Rise and Fall of "Set Free"
Christine Woodman and David Bromley, Virginia Commonwealth University
From Gays to Men: Ex-Gay Ministries and the Configurations of Evangelical Masculinity
Lynne Gerber, University of California – Berkeley
Session F4: Religion and Gender
Convener and discussant: Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri
Women, Religion, and Race: American Ásatrú and the Impact of Gender, 1968-88
Galina Krasskova, New York University
Holistic Spirituality, Gender, and the Rise of a Belly Dance Subculture
Rachel Kraus, Ball State University
Cohabitation, Gender and Religiosity
Anthony E. Healy, Georgia State University
Sunday, August 9, 12:30-2:15 p.m.
Session G1: Women and Islam
Convener and discussant: Jen’nan Read, Duke University
Sociology of the Afterlife: The Case of Women in Islamic Visions of Heaven and Hell
Graeme Lang and Vivienne Wee, City University of Hong Kong, and Man Ke, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Could Sheila Have Been a Muslim? Individualism and Subjectivity among Muslim Immigrant Women in the Los Angeles Area
Inger Furseth, University of Southern California
U.S. Muslim Women, Marital Status, and Modesty Norms
Farha Ternikar, Le Moyne College
Muslim Women’s Voluntarism: Public Piety in Iran and Egypt
Sarah Garlington, Boston University
Session G2: Immigrant Religion
Convener and discussant: Jerry Park, Baylor University
Religion and Assimilation: Turkish Immigrants in the United States
Elif Bulut, Doraville, Georgia
Balm for the Soul: Immigrant Religion and Emotional Well-Being
Phillip Connor, Princeton University
Interpretations of Order: Culture Clash in a Catholic Parish Shared by Latino/as and Euro-Americans
Brett C. Hoover, Graduate Theological Union – Berkeley
Session G3: Buddhism Around the World
Convener and discussant: Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University
Buddhism’s Other Face
James William Coleman, California Polytechnic State University
Pathways to Buddhist Identities in Contemporary China: Ascription, Voluntarism, and Pragmatism
Alison Denton Jones, Harvard University
The Dynamics of Recruitment Process in Building a Social Movement: A Study of the Buddhism Compassion Relief Tzu-Chi Foundation in Hong Kong
Huang Ping, Hong Kong Baptist University
Session G4: Judaism Today
Convener and discussant: TBA
Construction of Ethnic and Religious Identities among Young Adult Children of Intermarriage with One Jewish Parent
Rachel Rockenmacher, Clark University
Rabbis and Cantors: Gender in the Home and the Pulpit
Susan B. Prager, Brooklyn College/CUNY
"Sparring with Patriarchy": The Case of Jewish Orthodox Women who Challenge their Exclusion from Synagogue Ritual
Yael Israel-Cohen, Tel Aviv University
Sunday, August 9, 2:30-4:45 p.m.
Session H1: Author-Meets-Critics: John Hall’s Apocalypse: From Antiquity to the Empire of Modernity
Organizer and convener: Mary Jo Neitz, University of Missouri
Panel: Lutz Kaelber, University of Vermont
Genevieve Zubrzycki, University of Michigan
Marion S. Goldman, University of Oregon
Respondent: John Hall, University of California – Davis
Session H2: Missionaries and Their Effects
Convener and discussant: Robert Woodberry, University of Texas – Austin
Rethinking the Role of the Catholic Church in Building Civil Society in Contemporary China: The Case of Wenzhou
Shun-hing Chan, Hong Kong Baptist University
The Phenomenon of Corruption and Its Likelihood to Disappear
Stanley L. Kasun, University of Texas – Austin
Kakure Kirishitan: The "Hidden Christians" of Japan
Richard McCarthy, Appleton, Wisconsin
The Sister Church Phenomenon: A Case Study of the Institutional Restructuring of North American Religion
Janel K. Bakker, Catholic University of America
Session H3: Religion, Culture, and Citizenship
Organizer, convener, and discussant: Mary Ellen Konieczny, University of Notre Dame
Can Integrating Religion into a Political Campaign Create an Engaged Citizenry? Data from Progressive Movement Politics
Rebecca Sager, Loyola Marymount University
Whose Citizenship Matters? Global Inequality, Gender Exclusion, and Religion in the Global Public Sphere
Evelyn Bush, Fordham University
"The Time Has Come to Set Aside Childish Things": Presidential Addresses and the Changing Face of Citizenship
Kari Christoffersen, University of Notre Dame
Session H4: Religion Combating Stigma and Providing Social Support
Convener: William H. Swatos, Jr., Augustana College (Illinois)
Black Churches and HIV/AIDS: Mechanisms Influencing Organizational Responsiveness to Stigmatized Crises
Brad Fulton, Duke University
How Welcoming are Religious Congregations of People with HIV/AIDS?
Rhys H. Williams, Magdalena Szaflarski, C. Jeffrey Jacobson, P. Neal Ritchey, University of Cincinnati; Susan N. Sherman, Sherman Consulting; and Joel Tsevat, University of Cincinnati
The Power of Forgiveness on Social Support in Church Communities
Robert W. B. Love, Jr. and Christopher Ellison, University of Texas – Austin
The Role of Religious Leaders in Suicide Prevention: A Comparison between the Clergy of American Christian Churches and Japanese Buddhist Temples
Tatsushi Hirono, State University of New York – Stony Brook
Sunday, August 9, 5:00 –6:00 p.m.
The Paul Hanly Furfey Lecture
Title TBA
Ann Swidler, University of California – Berkeley
The Paul Hanly Furfey Reception
*Time approximate: reception to open upon the conclusion of the lecture.
*Monday, August 10, 7:15-8:25 a.m.
ASR Business Meeting
Presiding: Michele Dillon, University of New Hampshire, and Rhys H. Williams, University of Cincinnati
Monday, August 10, 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Registration
Monday, August 10, 8:15 a.m. –10:25 a.m.
Reserve Book Pick-up
Monday, August 10, 8:30-10:15 a.m.
Session I1: Author-Meets Critics: Margarita Mooney’s Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora
Organizer and convener: Phillip Connor, Princeton University
Panel: Nancy Ammerman, Boston University
Omar McRoberts, University of Chicago
Solange Lefebvre, Université de Montréal
Respondent: Margarita Mooney
Session I2: Religion, Social Movements and Religious Movements
Convener and discussant: Michael Young, University of Texas at Austin
Creation Care: Trends in Evangelicals’ Environmentalism, 1988-2008
Sabrina Danielsen, University of Pennsylvania
Evangelical Environmentalism and the Fracturing of Evangelicalism
Laurel Kearns, Drew University
Interfaith Movements as "Experiments in Living": Cultural Struggles in the New Sanctuary Movement
Grace Yukich, New York University
Charisma and the Rise and Decline of New Vrindraban
E. Burke Rochford, Jr., Middlebury College
Session I3: Historical Studies of Religion
Convener: TBA
When the Political Becomes Religious: Spaces and Symbols of the Past in
Maharashtra
Daniel L. Jasper, Moravian College
Catholic Hospitals, Secularization, and the State in 20th Century America
Barbara Mann Wall, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing
Finney and the Second Great Awakening: New Terms and Theory
Donald Swenson, Mount Royal College
The Soul Prison of the Body: Conflicts between God’s Will, State Law, and the Individual’s Freedom
Giuseppe Giordan, University of Padua
Session I4: Coping with Armageddon
Convener and discussant: Richard McCarthy, University of Wisconsin System (retired)
Disaster and World Religions in the World-System
John Barnshaw, University of Delaware
From Abraham to Armageddon: Legitimizing Contemporary Conflict through Apocalyptic Discourse
Holly Thomas, Carleton University
Exhibiting the "Good Death": Sacredness and Trauma in the Public Display of Nazi
"Euthanasia" Crimes
Lutz Kaelber, University of Vermont
Monday, August 10, 10:25a.m.-12:25p.m.
Final Book Sale
Monday, August 10, 10:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Session J1: The New Politics of Religious Communities: Managing Diversity and Inequality (ASR/ASA Joint Thematic Session)
Organizer and convener: Rhys H. Williams, University of Cincinnati
Whose Religion Counts: Religious Repertoires and Boundaries in American Life
Penny Edgell and Douglas Hartmann, University of Minnesota
Managing Diversity and Inequality in Multiracial Congregations
Michael O. Emerson, Rice University
Difficult Dialogues: The Emotions and Politics of Reconciliation
Dawn Moon, Marquette University
Establishing an "Ethnic" Christianity: The Challenges Facing the Marthoma Indian
Church in the United States
Prema A. Kurien, Syracuse University
Discussant: R. Stephen Warner, University of Illinois – Chicago
Session J2: American Jews’ Politics and the Politics of American Jewry
Co-sponsored by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry (ASSJ) and the Mandell Berman Institute North American Jewish Data Bank
Organizers and co-conveners: Harriet Hartman, Rowan University, and Arnold Dashefsky, University of Connecticut
Everything Old Is New Again: Independent Minyanim, Young Adults Jews, and the Politics of Creating Jewish Communities
Tobin Belzer, University of Southern California
American Jews and the 2008 Presidential Election: As Democratic and Liberal as Ever?
Steven M. Cohen, Hebrew Union College, Samuel J. Abrams, New York University – Hamilton Center, and Judith Veinstein, New York University – Wagner
The Religious, Cultural and Political Context of Charitable Choices among American Jews
Arnold Dashefsky, University of Connecticut, and Bernard Lazerwitz, Bar-Ilan University
Being Jewish in America and Part of the Millennial Makeover: The Identity Politics of Jewish Americans
Debra Kaufman, Northeastern University
Good Husbands: Men, Intermarriage, and Jewish Identity Politics
Keren R. McGinity, University of Michigan
Discussant: Harriet Hartman, Rowan University
Session J3: Religion in Africa
Organizer and convener: Afe Adogame, University of Edinburgh
Conflict and Peace Making in Africa
Lucas Shamala, Metropolitan State College of Denver
Religion in Politics: The Search for Peace in Nigeria
Akintunde Dorcas Olubanke, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
The Church and the Dilemma between "Utu": Nationhood and Ethnicity in Africa
Eunice Karanja Kamaara, Indiana University-Purdue University –Indianapolis
Talking with Local Elites: Exploring the Habitus of Religious Leadership in Rural Malawi
Nicolette Manglos, University of Texas – Austin
Discussant: Ann Swidler, University of California, Berkeley
Session J4: Classical and Cultural Theory in the Sociology of Religion
Convener and discussant: Mary Ellen Konieczny, University of Notre Dame
Georg Simmel’s "Sociology of Religion"
Anthony J. Blasi, Tennessee State University
Reconstructing the Classics
Warren Goldstein, University of Central Florida
Weberian Asceticism and Straight-Edge Punk Music
William Tsitsos, Towson University
The Cost of Falling Short, the Relationship between Shame and Habitus, and Strategies of Coping
Tim Helton, Drew University
Monday, August 10, 12:30-2:10 p.m.
Session K1: Religion and Politics in America
Convener: TBA
The Black Mega Church: Traditional and Non-Traditional Forms of Political Activism
Sandra L. Barnes, Vanderbilt University
Does Religious Mean Conservative? How Ordinary People Evaluate Religion in American Public Debate
Michael S. Evans, University of California – San Diego
The Politics of Roman Catholic Clergy
Christine Brickman Bhutta and Christopher Born, Catholic University of America
Session K2: Author Meets Critics — Sharon Erickson Nepstad’s Religion and War
Resistance in the Plowshares Movement
Organizer and convener: Melissa Wilde, University of Pennsylvania
Panel: Laurel Kearns, Drew University
Benjamin Zablocki, Rutgers University
Nathan Wright, Bryn Mawr CollegeMary Ellen Konieczny, University of Notre Dame
Respondent: Sharon Erickson Nepstad, University of New Mexico
Session K3: The Sociology of Godly Love: New Research in an Emerging Field of
Study
Organizer and convener: Matthew Lee, University of Akron
Godly Love and Revitalizing American Pentecostalism"
Margaret M. Poloma, University of Akron
Altruism and Godly Love: An Exploration of Competing Ways to Frame Benevolent Service.
Matthew T. Lee, University of Akron
The Dream Center as an Expression of Godly Love: Preliminary Findings from a Qualitative Analysis
Bradly Nabors, University of Southern California
Discussant: Jong Hyun Jung, University of Southern California
Session K4: Workshop on Journal Publishing
Convener: Peter Kivisto, Augustana College (Illinois)
Editor of Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion
Marie Cornwall, Brigham Young University
Editor of Sociology of Religion
David Yamane, Wake Forest University
Former Editor of Review of Religious Research
Patricia Wittberg, Indiana University-Purdue University – Indianapolis
Monday, August 10, 2:30-4:15 p.m.
Session L1: Religion and Sexuality
Convener and discussant: Melissa Wilcox, Whitman College
Heavenly Communication to Sinful Fornication: The Downward Spiral of Sex
Melissa Warner, University of Wisconsin
Waning Homosexual Opposition? Evangelicalism and the Subtleties of Shifting Sexual Moral Strategies
Jeremy Thomas, Purdue University
Maintaining Worth: Fear, Avoidance, and Repentance of Sexual Sin in the LDS Church
Amy Moff Hudec, Boston University
Session L2: Catholicism in the United States Today
Convener and discussant: Brian Starks, Florida State University
The Politics of Ritual: Examining Parishes Implementing the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA)
Sarah L. MacMillan, Duquesne University, and David Yamane, Wake Forest University
The Concept of "Community" in Catholic Parishes
Patricia Wittberg, Indiana University-Purdue University – Indianapolis
The Development of Internally Grounded Pluralism in American Catholicism and its Civic Implications
Michael Agliardo, Canisius College
Young Adult Seminarians: Of Their Generation or Outliers?
Anthony J. Pogorelc, Catholic University of America
Session L3: Socialization into New Religious Movements
Organizer and convener: Benjamin Zablocki, Rutgers University
To Have and to Hold: Non-recruitment and Retention of Children in NRMs
Janja Lalich, California State University – Chico
The Cowardly Lion Was Onto Something: The Role of Courage in Recruitment to Reclaiming Tradition Witchcraft and Activism
Elizabeth Williamson, Rutgers University
The Public Face of Private Groups
Beyond Indoctrination: Extreme Programmatic Socialization in New Religious Movements
David Peterson and Benjamin Zablocki, Rutgers University
Session L4: Religion and the Family
Convener and discussant: Orit Avishai, Fordham University
Does Family Matter: How Family Ideologies Influence Religious Involvement
Young-il Kim, University of Virginia
Why Is Religion Absent from the Marriage and Family Journals?
Christopher G. Ellison and Jennifer Storch, University of Texas – Austin
Our Father Which Art in Heaven: Christian Protestants’ Perceptions and Meanings of Gendered Family Metaphors for God
Julie A. Zaloudek, University of Minnesota
Monday, August 10, 4:30 p.m.
ASR Executive Council
Presiding: Rhys H. Williams, University of Cincinnati